LOCAL INDUSTRIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 144, 17 May 1930, Page 8

LOCAL INDUSTRIES

SUPPORT ADVOCATED. LORD BLEDISLOE’S ADVICE. (Bv Telegraph.—Special to Standard.) AUCKLAND, May 16. In advocating the development of tlie farm lands of the Dominion and support for local industries, the Gov-ernor-General, Lord Bledisloe, said that it was realised in Great Britain and in New Zealand, too, that if industry was to be developed there had to be a maximum of co-opcration and cordiality between the employer and the employed. “Domestic” co-opera-tion and mutual confidence counted for much in the success of industry. Another essential was sympathetic co-operation between the public and the industrial, community. _ Lord Bledisloe said that his predecessor in office, Sir Charles Fergusson, had made an appeal for the support of local industries, and this he wished most heartily to endorse. “I sat on the Empire Marketing Board and helped to evolve principles on which the British market should be supplied with food of Empire origin, he continued. “We asked that preference should first be given to the Old Country, then to the overseas Dominions and finally only where it was impossible for goods to be supplied from within the Empire to go to other sources of supply. But it is not expected that you should give your custom to the Old Country at the expense of your own Dominion. “Her Majesty the Queen, and the lady members of Parliament, are already wearing cotton garments with the idea of giving a stimulus to the cotton trade of Lancashire. Bummer is just beginning in England, and winter is here, so why should we not do the same with our wool? . “I make this appeal quite seriously. The woollen factories are working halftime, and there is a serious glut of wool on the world’s market. Even to a small extent it is worth while trying to relieve the position and thus create more employment in the local mills. “Government House will do what it can in pointing the way. Let us all do what we can in friendly and sympathetic co-operation to create a, better demand for the primary and secondary products of New Zealand.